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Post by kijii on Nov 9, 2018 19:08:17 GMT
The End of World War I Yep, it all happened 100 years ago.. What are some movies that show, or refer to, this event? I'll start with The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) |
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 9, 2018 19:22:55 GMT
The film to win Best Production for the first year of Oscars was a WWI picture.  |
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Post by kijii on Nov 10, 2018 0:17:09 GMT
Random Harvest (1942) / Mervyn LeRoy I think this story starts with the celebration of the end of the war. 
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 10, 2018 0:20:21 GMT
The Big Red One - been a long time, but I think the opening scene takes place as WW1 ends.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2018 0:26:02 GMT
Maybe Testament of Youth?
All Quiet on the Western Front ends shortly before the Armistice.
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 10, 2018 0:54:56 GMT
Westfront 1918 takes place during the last few months of the war but I don't believe the Armistice happens before the end of the film.
Sgt. York definitely references it.
The Big Parade (1925) is another one.
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Post by kijii on Nov 10, 2018 1:20:39 GMT
The Big Red One - been a long time, but I think the opening scene takes place as WW1 ends. Yep, Lee Marvin takes the Big Red One off of his WWI uniform and the rest of the movie is about that army unit. The movie seems like a biography of an army unit, and I like the way it was structured. |
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Post by kijii on Nov 10, 2018 1:25:30 GMT
Waterloo Bridge (1940) is a classic about a man looking back to WWI
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Post by marianne48 on Nov 10, 2018 12:32:35 GMT
La Grande Illusion, one of the greatest movies of all time. Its pacifist message was unwelcome in 1937, and it was in danger of being a "lost" film thanks to Joseph Goebbels and his Nazi pals, who attempted to destroy all copies of the film (like today, tyrants were enemies of the media). The camaraderie and code of honor among the pilots of opposing armies of that war, also depicted in The Eagle and the Hawk, is interesting, especially in comparison to WWII films (in Passage to Marseille, Humphrey Bogart's character machine-guns survivors of a torpedoed German ship); this kind of camaraderie was unwelcome in the hateful atmosphere of late-1930s Europe. It's sad to watch this, a movie about "the war to end all wars," knowing what was to come a few years after it was made.
All Quiet on the Western Front, another film whose antiwar message angered the German government by the time it was released in 1930.
Testament of Youth (1979)--the recent movie was okay, but the TV miniseries is the better version; watch it if you can find it.
More recently, Joyeux Noel (2005)--a story based on the Christmas truce of 1914, one of the most heartbreaking incidents of the war, as it indicated how the soldiers were fighting more out of duty to the higher-ups than out of opposing ideologies. The whole thing began as a family feud among European leaders, and ended up killing millions of soldiers used as cannon fodder, not to mention fueling the bitterness that would culminate in WWII.
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 10, 2018 12:36:05 GMT
THE ROARING TWENTIES opens with three doughboys (Cagney, Bogie, Jeffrey Lynn) huddled in a blasted out dugout as Armistice is declared.
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG begins with Paul Muni and fellow soldiers heading home aboard a troop ship and discussing their postwar plans and dreams.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 10, 2018 18:43:56 GMT
Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) from MASH TV made many references to WWI in that series.
In 1919, the American Legion was formed. (The VFW was formed after WWII)
18,000 Native Americans served in WWI, but were not granted citizenship until 1924.
"Paths of Glory" is my favorite WWI film next to the original "All Quiet on the Western Front"
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Post by claudius on Nov 10, 2018 19:42:11 GMT
The Fourth Series of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS dealt with the war and its effects on the cast, especially James Bellamy and footman Edward. I've been celebrating the WW1 Centennial by watching the episodes, starting with the Third Season Finale that Summer of 2014. This is about to end tomorrow.
SIMPLE GIFTS: SIX GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS (1978) has as one of its 'Gifts' an animated segment about the Christmas Truce.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 12, 2018 0:21:44 GMT
THE STRONG MAN (1926) "A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place."
Frank Capra was hired as a gag-writer by Harry Langdon, working on Langdon's first First National feature-length film, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926). The movie was directed by Harry Edwards who had directed all of Harry Langdon's films at Sennett. His first comedy for First National, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) did well at the box office, but it had ran over budget, which came out of Langdon's end. Harry Edwards was sacked, and for his next picture, The Strong Man (1926), Langdon promoted Capra to director, boosting his salary to $750 per week. The movie was a hit,
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